Headies 2015Profiling the nominees of the Next Rated category
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Organizers of the Headies have unveiled the nominees of the 10th Headies Awards.
With
21 categories up for grabs, the competition for the gongs is more stiff
this year than ever. But all eyes will rest on the Next Rated category.
This category is a voting category for the most promising upcoming act
in the year under review.
The highly prized Next Rated category will see Reekado Banks, Kiss Daniel, Korede Bello, Cynthia Morgan and Lil’ Kesh slug it out.
Pulse music profiles the five acts who are in running to pick up the prize.
Reekado Banks
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Reekado Banks(Pulse)
Reekado
Banks, is a singer, rapper and songwriter who came into limelight in
2014 after being signed to Mavin Records . He went by the stage name
Spicy prior to his record deal with the aforementioned label. He was
declared the Rookie of the Year at The Headies 2014.
He has released and has been featured in several top hit songs of 2014/2015.
Reekado Banks
premiered the single "Turn It Up" on 21 February 2014, on the same day
he got signed to Mavin Records; the song features Tiwa Savage and was
released as his first official single under Mavin Records. Reekado
Banks was later featured alongside label mates Don Jazzy, Korede Bello,
Tiwa Savage, Di'Ja, Dr SID and D'Prince on the critical acclaim song ‘Dorobucci’, which was released on 1 May 2014.
He
has also worked with his label mates to release the collaborative
singles ‘Adaobi’, ‘Arise’ and ‘Looku Looku’. On 13 February 2015,
Reekado Banks released the Don Jazzy produced song ‘Katapot’. Which is
currently ruling the airwaves.
Kiss Daniel
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Kiss Daniel and Kate Henshaw at the 'Do-Good' premiere.(Pulse)
Kiss Daniel was born Oluwatobiloba Daniel Sikiru Anidugbe in Ogun state, Nigeria. He hails from Abeokuta North local government area.
He
attended Abeokuta Grammar School in Abeokuta, Ogun state. He graduated
from Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, in the year 2013,
where he studied Water Resources Management and Agrometeorology (Water
Engineering).
He started his music career
professionally 2013 after his tertiary education, when he came across
the famous G-Worldwide Entertainment CEO, Emperor Geezy who in turn had heard a lot about him and sign him to his record label.
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Kiss Daniel(Tips)
Kiss Daniel released
his first official single titled 'Shoye' produced by Beatburx on 1st of
May, 2014 from the stables of G-Worldwide Entertainment and also dropped
a video to it couple of weeks after, which was directed by MEX Film.
Having
created a platform for himself and is record label, Kiss Daniel rose
again but this time teaming up with the amazing producer DJ Coublon to
drop a follow up single titled "Woju" which is a highlife tune. He
followed that up with a remix to the song, and currently has a new
single ‘Laye’ trending.
Kiss Daniel has won a
number of awards such as Next rated artiste of the Year at Extreme
Awards held in Benin Republic, Newcomer/Revelation of the year at Maya
Awards in Ibadan and has got several awards nominations which include
Artiste of the Year at Peers in town Awards to mention a few.
Cynthia Morgan
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Cynthia Morgan(silverbirdtv)
Cynthia Ikponmwenosa Morgan (born 23 September 1991), popularly known by her stage name Cynthia Morgan,
is a Nigerian born songwriter and singer. Her music is a fusion of pop,
hip hop, dancehall and rap. She came into limelight following the
release of her singles "Don't Break My Heart" and "Lead Me On", both of
which received significant airplay.
On 22 August 2013,
Cynthia Morgan signed a multi-million recording contract with "Northside
Entertainment Inc." owned by Jude 'Engees' Okoye, brother to Nigerian
pop singers P-Square.
Few months later, she released two chart-topping singles "Don't Break
My Heart" and "Lead Me On" which got positive reviews from fans; the
latter went on to be nominated for "Best Reggae/Dancehall Single" at The
Headies 2014.
Cynthia has since wowed fans with a number of hit releases including ‘I’m Taken’, ‘Come and do’, ‘Simantiniya’.
Korede Bello
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(Supreme Mavin Dynasty)
Korede Bello (born 29 February 1996) is a singer and songwriter currently signed to Mavin Records. He is best known for his hit single "Godwin", a semi-gospel and pop song which topped many music charts in Nigeria.
Korede
was born in Lagos State, SouthWestern Nigeria. He went on to finish his
basic and secondary school education there. He started performing at
the age of 7 by the stage name African Prince and went
on to write his first song after forming a music group with a friend
while in primary school. He started music professionally by recording
songs in the studio while in secondary school before he went on to
release his first single "Forever’.
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Korede Bello holding on to the rim(Instagram)
After the release of
his first single which got relatively positive reviews, he was
introduced to Don Jazzy by his manager Casmir Uwaegbute after which they
recorded some songs together which got Don Jazzy impressed. On 28
February 2014, he got signed to Mavin Records under which he has
recorded popular songs like "African Princess" and "Godwin".
He is currently working on his first studio album and cites Asa and 2face Idibia as people he draws inspiration from.
Lil Kesh
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Lil Kesh (Pulse TV )
Lil
Kesh is a young rapper from Lagos state. He is presently a student of
Unilag studying Linguistics. He officially began his music career in
2012. In 2014, Lil Kesh recorded the song ‘Lyrically’ which gained
grounds within the school campus.
And later on a friend of his, Viktoh, had to share the song with ace rapper olamide, and when Olamide, who went on to sign him to YBNL in April 2014.
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Lil Kesh performing at the Skuki & Friends Campus concert.(Press)
With shoki dance gaining grounds in Lagos, the YBNL act jumped on the street dance and released a song titled after the dance, ‘Shoki’. He later had a remix featuring Davido, and label head, Olamide. The song became a nationwide anthem, propelling the youngster to performing at major shows across Africa.
Lil
Kesh has kept up his momentum in 2015 with the banging singles ‘Gbese’
and ‘Efejoku’. Kesh was invited to perform at the MAMA Awards 2015 in
South Africa which was another major progress in his music career.
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